Waterproofing composition for gloves



Patented May 4.1926.

FRANCIS MARION REED AND CHARLES PAUISEN', OF MINDENQ NEBRASKA.

WATERPROOFING COMPOSITION FOR GLOVES..

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, FRANCIS M. REED and CHARLES PAULsnN, citizensof the United States and residents of,l\linden, in the State Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Composition for Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a composition for forming a coating and has for its object the provision of a liquid which when applied to the hands or fabric gloves will, whendry, protect the hands and the gloves from inury, especially during the season of harvest ing corn. V

A further object of the invention is the provision of a fluid adapted to be applied to the hands or to the fabrics of gloves or mittens to form a coating thereon for either protecting the hands against injury or for causing a prolongation of the Wearing ofthe fabricand .as an additional protection to the hands when the fabric of the gloves has been so treated, the coating being particularly useful for protecting said hands and gloves when husking corn. g I

This invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description; nevertheless it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure, being susceptible of such changes and modifications which shall define no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In carrying out our invention, equal parts of ordinary commercial rosin and benzine or high test gasoline are mixed and then' heated and maintained at the boiling point until 'all the rosin is completely dissolved when the liquid is allowed to cool. 5% of this mixture is added to approximately 95% of Application flied March 7, 1925. Serial 1T0. 18,848.

ordinary rubber dry patching tire cement,

stirred mechanically while adding sufficient benzine until a consistency of ordinary table syrup is efl'ected and until the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated or dissolved into a homogeneous liquid. This last li uid product is then sealed in air-tight glass 0ttles and is ready for application.

If it be desired to treat the"' bare hands and protect them during work it' is only" necessary to pour some of the liquid in the hands and evenly spread the liquid overthe hands by rubbing. -When theapplication is complete the hands are allowed to dry-and a protective coating'is formed over the skin of the hands.

The fabrics of the gloves or mittens are treated by placing them in a suflicient quantity of the liquid and retaining them in th e liquid until they become thoroughly saturated. The loves and mittens are then 're-' moved and a loWed'to dry. The gloves may be treated in the same manner ashas been described. for providing a coating for the hands, that is by merely pouring a sufficient quantity of the liquid into the gloves While worn and rubbing the same until a coating is evenly distributed over the fabric.

The ordinary rubber dry patching tire cement is usually formed by dissolving virgin rubber in a solvent such as bi-sulphide of carbon.

What we claim is;

A coating composition comprising 95% of ordinary rubber dry patching tire cement dissolved in 5% of 5 mixture of equal parts of rosin and benzine, and suflicient benzine for thinning the solution to the consistency of ordinary table syrup. I

FRANCIS MARION REE CHARLES PAULSEN. 

